Reliance

My mom had surgery the other day. Apparently it was pretty serious. The specialist looked at her last Thursday and cleared his calender so he could perform the surgery on Monday. I'm amazed at some peoples abilities. To know that people can study the human body and know how to cut them open, work on them and make them better. We call God the Great Physician and I've found a problem with that today. God isn't the Great Physician, He's the only physician.
In John 5 Jesus said that He could only do what He saw the Father doing. Then in John 15:5, Jesus calls us branches and Himself the vine. He finishes off the verse saying that without Him we can do nothing. I'm so guilty of thinking that I can do things on my own. I try to work as hard as I can to do things and make them happen. The truth is, if God's not doing it, then I can't do it. Jesus had to wait and watch what the Father did and then He did it. If He had to, then isn't that what we have to do. Look for what God is doing and then do it. That is reliance on Him. There's another part to this. When God gives you a task, there is a lot of work to do. The door He opens and the work He gives is bigger than we can do on our own. That's when we have to rely on Him some more to help us get it done. A phrase my friend says is "God outsources the possible and only does the impossible". If we are trying to do the impossible on our own, we will fail. Remember, if you follow Christ, you are only a branch and have to be plugged into the source to get it done. A lamp that's not plugged in is only a decoration.